[users@httpd] Apache Authentication

[faisal gillani <fa...@yahoo.com>]

i want to know how to allow only the users in my
/etc/passwd file to access my website ? 


thanks

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Re: [users@httpd] Apache Authentication

[Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:17:40 -0700 (PDT), faisal gillani
<fa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i want to know how to allow only the users in my
> /etc/passwd file to access my website ?

See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#passwdauth
for why this is a very bad idea.

If you still want to do it, there are several modules under
http://modules.apache.org/ that can do the job.

Joshua.

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